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...Mielziner (pronounced Mell-zeener) completed his 150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...
...symphonies. But he has written his share. In 1939, as a birthday present to his boss, he wrote a piece called Homage to Stalin. He also did a Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, using words by Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Except for a Romeo and Juliet suite, nearly everything he has written in the U.S.S.R. has been built on Russian folk themes, and to glorify Russia's past and present. And his hard, brilliant, unsentimental, highly polished music had just the qualities the Bolsheviks liked. He soon became the most influential composer in Russia...
...Romeo and Juliet, an innocent situation is all gummed up by the old folks-the feuding Archers and Pringles. The Archer boy (Scott Elliott), an Air Forces lieutenant, elopes with the Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest...
Most Blue listeners probably shared Juliet's unconcern about the significance of names. But the network had its own solid reason for the change. Ever since FCC set the 197 station Blue on its own two and a half years ago, the Blue has longed to forget that for 15 years it was only a little brother to NBC's powerful Red network...